My niece, a top academic student, recently transferred from Georgetown to W&M. G- town is without question an excellent school but it seems a bit cold at heart. It's early but my niece loves W & M.
One college source may have summed it up best when it wrote about G-town: good school but don't go there only because it is the highest ranked school you got admitted to.
Brown might be a good choice if you think Obama is way too right wing.